It's opening day of the 2025 Major League Baseball season, and Luna Lee welcomes the occasion with a rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" on a Korean stringed instrument called a gayageum.
Here's an interesting development: "California's a Trailblazer Again, Fields Baseball's First Homeless Team".
California, which has blazed so many trails for the rest of the country, is now trailblazing again, fielding baseball’s first homeless team.
On Thursday, the Seattle Mariners will kick off their 2025 season with a game at home against “the Athletics.” Not the Oakland Athletics, although the team’s ignominious abandonment of its home since 1968 is still so recent that its season schedule page at MLB.com still carries an ad that tries to entice you to visit lovely Oakland. And not “the Sacramento Athletics” or “West Sacramento Athletics,” although the team will play this year and, the story goes, the next two seasons in the latter city. No, the team is now just “the Athletics,” without a city.
The Homeless Athletics need to find a baseball diamond under an overpass.
ReplyDeleteOh. That sort of 'homeless' team.
ReplyDeleteI had visions of LA's unwashed citizens of the cardboard empire strolling on to the pitch.
That would be something. I can just see the outfielders pushing their shopping carts as fast as they can go trying to catch fly balls.
DeleteThat's what I thought Gregory.
ReplyDeleteI figured it was to Bring Awareness To Their Plight.
I would have watched that.
Mind you, Veeshir, the toilet breaks would double as half-time entertainment.
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